Best thing for hanging posters on walls?

[dr.girlfriend]

My son is switching over his "little boy room" that I decorated for him when he was 5 or 6 into a teenage room.  He's ordered like seven posters and although it's breaking my H&G heart he's insistent that he wants to tack them up on the wall dorm-room style instead of framing and hanging them.  :-)  

Any recs for how to do that?  I'm hoping technology has improved since my college days of blue fun-tak but not sure what the current status is.  We own so not super duper worried about damaging the walls, but of course bonus points to anything that stays up well but doesn't wreck the walls.

[bee20]

I remember that room, it was so good! I've had the best luck with the 3M poster strips. They are flatter than the old blue-tac and don't have that oily bleed-through. I find it easiest to stick one side to the poster and then put them up on the wall, the package suggests the opposite.

[lessel]

So my H is a poster collector... like art posters and vintage movie posters. Because of that, we don't stick stuff directly to the posters/walls. If these are the kind of posters I would have stuck up on my wall as a teen, then the 3M poster strips are probably your best bet for not damaging the walls. They may pull paper off the back of the poster though.

If these are posters that cost $$ or have potential future value, I would either get cheap-ish poster frames or a snap couple of snap-edge frames* where he can change the poster in place. We have a snap frame in each of our boys' rooms and we regularly change out 'one sheet' movie posters my H insists on buying. So we have a Super Mario in DS2's room and a Ninja Turtles one in DS1's room.

Example of a snap frame: www.displays2go.com/P-16612/27x40-Poster-Frame-Movie-Prints-Other-Signage (Though I have no clue what brand my H insists on buying.)

[k3am]

We have one of these in DS's room. Not quite a frame, but may still be more structured than the look he's going for? One hole or command hook, super easy to put together.

My mom's rule growing up was always to tack vs. tape, since it's easier to patch, but options are better now. 

[glw]

I use painter's tape to tape four large paperclips to the wall (one for each corner of the poster, hook the paperclip over the piece of tape and then press it down), then put the poster up and put a strong magnet on top. So, wall > paperclip > poster > magnet. If the poster is extra heavy, I tape magnets to the wall instead of paperclips.

[dr.girlfriend]

Jul 25, 2023 7:57:19 GMT -5 glw said:

I use painter's tape to tape four large paperclips to the wall (one for each corner of the poster, hook the paperclip over the piece of tape and then press it down), then put the poster up and put a strong magnet on top. So, wall > paperclip > poster > magnet. If the poster is extra heavy, I tape magnets to the wall instead of paperclips.

This is some kind of galaxy-level thinking!